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Figure
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he shepard plot for the rail station data
Example: Shakespeare Keywords
3.4
Cox (
) uses classical scaling on frequency counts of keywords from
Shake-
speareplays.Asimilaranalysiswascarriedoutbutusingnon-metricscalingwithdis-
similarity defined by Euclidean distance calculated from the frequencies. Figure
.
shows the configuration for the keywords, but where “lord” and “king” have been
excluded from the analysis since their inclusion forced all other words into a single
cluster producing zero STRESS. he STRESS obtained ater exclusion was
%. It is
di
culttoplottheconfigurationinsuchasmallpagearea,andtheonlyclearlyvisible
wordsarerelated tocharactersplus“god”and “dead.”Figure
.
showsthe configura-
tion obtained for plays where the role of keywords and plays has been interchanged.
he STRESS for this configuration is
%. It would appear that Hamlet is closest to
the historical plays, while the tragedies and comedies are hard to separate.
